Quickstart
This walkthrough gets you from a fresh signup to a finished cut in under fifteen minutes. You’ll need:
- A web browser
- A barcode scanner (optional — keyboard works too)
- One roll of stock (we’ll create test data if you don’t have one yet)
Sign up
Visit get.rubberfit.app/pricing and start a 14-day Pro trial. No credit card required. You’ll get a workspace at dashboard.rubberfit.app with admin role attached to your account.
Receive your first roll
Open Inventory → Rolls → New roll. Enter the dimensions, durometer, lot, and supplier. Save. Rubberfit prints a barcode label you can stick on the physical roll.
Or, if you have purchase order data, jump to Inventory → Purchase orders → Receive PO. Receiving a PO line auto-creates the matching roll record — no double entry.
Create a job
Open Jobs → New job. Add the customer name, email, dimensions, quantity, due date, and material. Assign an operator. The job gets its own barcode automatically.
Run Auto Nest
Open the Cutting Engine: /dashboard/cutting-engine. Select the job, dial in the source roll, and press Pack. The Rust engine returns an optimized layout in 1–3 seconds.
The yield percent shows in the header. The layout is recorded to cut_history the moment you confirm the cut session.
Cut and ship
Print the cut list. Operators tick off parts as they cut. Offcuts auto-record to offcuts with parent_roll_id lineage. When the job closes, a customer-facing PDF generates automatically — no internal layout diagrams, no operator notes — and a public-but-uncrawlable share URL goes out to the customer.
What just happened
In the background:
- The roll is now tracked from receipt → cut → retire
- Every offcut is searchable and reusable on future jobs
- The cut session has full layout JSON in
cut_history— you can replay it forever - The customer has a clean PDF; you have the internal record
- The operator’s actions are in the audit log